Shelby Smith

Key Takeaways

You only have yourself to please first and that’s highly liberating.
Self-Analyzation - questioning own decisions and thoughts to trying to figure out where thouse thoughts came from and where your mind came with that idea.
Do not take anything for granted, we need to remember how dependent we are on each other.
Lot of times we credit ourselves for being independent but we need to unlearn it. Whole concpet of being self-reliant is kind of a mess. Society is so intertwined, interdependent.It’s important to acknowledge that we are dependent on one another. Life’s not a single player game.
Your dream job wants you as badly as you want it.
You have to be able to have contrast in ideas because that’s how you advance and move forward.
Progressive measure - You have to put yourself out there and stamp your moment like this is what I believe at this moment of time in order to measure the growth when you look back from few years from now.
Each person’s experience is an undeniable truth to them in that moment or their perception.
If you can’t empathize with people then you can’t even enter conversation with them to try to see thier point of view. If you don’t listen to others, others won’t listen to you.
When you come across someone who has different beliefs or ideas from you, it’s an opprtunity to understand where that belief comes from and in doing so you could understand all the other people in the world who also thinks that.